A Statement on Immigration Greetings to our Beloved Community! My mother is a lifelong Lutheran and a Social Worker dedicated to ensuring that community members living with a developmental disability have the educational, living, and occupational opportunities they need to thrive. From childhood, she taught me that people need three things to live full, abundant […]
Power
For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.“ Mark 10:45 Greetings Sisters & Brothers in Christ, What is power? According to the dictionary this word has two meanings: the ability to act; the ability to influence the behavior of others […]
Costly Grace
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain […]
Statement of Faith
In September of 2017, Immanuel entered a “Season of Creation” with Peter’s confession of faith in Matthew 16:13-23 ringing in our ears. In worship we asked ourselves the question, “Who do we say that God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – is?” Many of us signed this Statement of Faith to boldly proclaim that […]
Baptismal Identity
And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.’” Matthew […]